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Torres, Rebecca Maria, Kate Swanson, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Sarah Blue. 2022.

Bordering through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico. Political Geography. 98: 102719.

Ciborowski, Haley M., Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez, Kate Swanson, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Holly Baker Shakya. 2022.

Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala. Journal of Migration and Health. Volume 5, 100096.

Torres, Rebecca Maria, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Kate Swanson. 2022.

“Asylum is not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied youth and racio-governance at the US border. Geopolitics.

Stoler, Justin, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ira Sheskin,Amber L. Pearson,Gary Schnakenberg, Dominique Cagalanan,Kate Swanson, Piotr Jankowski. 2021.

What’s in a name? Undergraduate student perceptions of geography, environment, and sustainability key words and program names. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 11(2):317-342.

Delgado, Emanuel and Kate Swanson. 2021.

Gentefication in the barrio: Art, displacement and urban change in Southern California. Journal of Urban Affairs. 43: 925-940.

The Impacts of COVID-19 on the SDSU Community. ESRI StoryMap. February 5, 2021.

Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography.

Pages 57-73 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students, 2nd Edition. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.

Pages 191-206 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 4th edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Wood, Lydia, Kate Swanson and Don Colley. 2020.

Tenets for a radical care ethics in geography. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 19(2):424-447.

Thompson, Amy, Rebecca M. Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue & Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2019.

Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45: 235-252.

Gutierrez, Jose, Paul Martin, Sam Orndoff, Aliona Galkina, Mckenna Kull, Steven Webb, and Kate Swanson. (2018).

A Glance From Our Stance: Educational Experiences at SDSU. San Diego State University, San Diego. Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.

Swanson, Kate. 2018. Street vendors.

Pages 355-363 in The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalscha and M. Prieto (Eds.). London: Routledge.

Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.

Pages 90-98 in in Social Justice and the City. N. Heynen (Ed.) New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-32274-5

Mackie, Peter, Kate Swanson and Ryan Goode. 2017.  Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America.

Pages 63-76 in Rebel Streets, Informal Economies and the Law. A. Brown (Ed). London: Routledge.

Conners, Erin E., Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales Miranda, Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Valerie Mercer, Kimberly Brouwer. 2017. 

HIV risk behaviors and correlates of inconsistent condom use among substance using Central American migrants. AIDS and Behavior.  21: 2033-2045.

Wood, Lydia, Stuart Aitken and Kate Swanson. 2016.  Young people’s rights to recreate spaces and reimagine borders.

Pages 1-22 in Geographies of Children and Young People. Space, Landscape, and Environment. Karen Nairn, Peter Kraftl, and Tracey Skelton (Eds.). London: Springer.

Swanson, Kate. 2016. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.

Pages 189-203 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 3rd edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Swanson, Kate. 2014. Urban ethnography.

Pages 54-69 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2014. Where is home? An autoethnography of academic migration.

Pages 27-40 in Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives. Academic Mobility at the Borderlands. Rémy Tremblay and Susan Hardwick (Eds.). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.

Aitken, Stuart, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth Kennedy. 2014. Unaccompanied migrant children and youth: navigating relational borderlands.

Pages 214-240 in Children and Borders by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou (Eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Goode, Ryan J., Kate Swanson and Stuart C. Aitken. 2013. From God to Men: media and the turbulent fight for Rio’s favelas.

Pages 161-180 in G. H. Curti, J. Craine, and S. Aitken (eds.). The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Swanson, Kate. 2012. Children and young people in Latin America.

Pages 187-201 in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds.), Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011. Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations in Children’s Geographies.

This special issue features writings by fourteen scholars from academic institutes in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Notably, Routledge published this special issue as a separate book in Spring 2011 (see above, under Peer-reviewed books).

Swanson, Kate. 2011. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.

Pages 103-110 in S. Aitken, K. Swanson, F. Bosco and T. Herman (eds.), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.

Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011.

Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.

Cumbers, Andy, Gesa Helms and Kate Swanson. 2010. Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

42:46-73. *Reprinted in March 2012 in a virtual and open-access Antipode special issue titled, “The Protester.”

Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador’s Urban Spaces.

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Philo, Chris and Kate Swanson. 2008. Afterword: global portraits and local snapshots.

Pages 193-207 in C. Jeffrey and J. Dyson (eds.), Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.